Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing

Your Sanity

Speakers

• Why online community is part of our work.

• Why community fits what we do.

Speakers

• Manny Hernandez– Founder, TuDiabetes and

EsTuDiabetes– Author, Ning For Dummies– @askmanny

Speakers

• Peggy Duvette– Exec. Director, WiserEarth– Advocates for building online

community capacity in NP sector– @wiserearth

Speakers

• Amy Sample Ward – Global Community Development

Manager, NetSquared.org– Blogger at AmySampleWard.org– @AmyRSWard– @NetSquared

Speakers

• Christine Egger – Co-Director, Social Actions– @SocialActions– @CDEgger

Dashboard and Hashtag

– Dashboard to share lessons &best practices: http://bit.ly/10ntcstrongbunch

– Twitter hashtag: #10NTC, #strongbunch

– Dashboard powered by THE EXTRAORDINARIES

Audience:

• What are you here to learn?

Before you even get started!

Can you devote enough capacity? If not, rethink!

You need a Community Manager

There is no auto-pilot

There is no auto-pilot

There is no auto-pilot

There is no auto-pilot

http://my.socialactions.com

http://socialactions.com/changetheweb

There is no auto-pilot

http://my.socialactions.com

There is no auto-pilot

There is no auto-pilot

There is no auto-pilot

There is no auto-pilot

There is no auto-pilot

Change the WebConversation Series

There is no auto-pilot

There is no auto-pilot

WiserEarth Editors Meet Up 2009

“WiserEarth has played, and will continue to play, many roles in

enabling change as our ever-evolving community connects and collaborates.”

“WiserEarth gives us the power to work collectively & avoid reinventing the

wheel. I hope to increase interconnections among good people.”

Know your community

WiserEarth Editors Meet Up 2009

Don’t under estimate the importance of face to face

Engage

Reward your power user

Listen

Empower your community

There is

no

auto-pilot

• Develop and enforce Guidelines

http://www.flickr.com/photos/furnari/3484546075/

Growing your community

• Your community has long legs!– TuDiabetes (on Ning)– Twitter: @tudiabetes– Facebook Page– RSS Syndication has

no limit... http://www.flickr.com/photos/ak4suna/4099079932/

Ask for

help

Leverage word of mouth

Growing your community

Integrating pushing out and cultivating inward

Growing your community

Lessons learned

• Know your community's ecology and who to give attention to.

• Set up modest goals at first for your community building

• Participation online is different: reward your power users

• Listen to your community

Audience:

• Challenges you have faced building your community?

Remember!

• Dashboard: http://bit.ly/10ntcstrongbunch

• Twitter hashtag: #10NTC, #strongbunch

• Follow us:– @askmanny– @wiserearth– @AmyRSWard– @CDEgger

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